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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians: ed. by J. A. Fuller …, Volume 1, 1911
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1AGRICOLA
3Elevation. Cadent. Springer.
5Shaked beat… Shaked Backfall.
7Shaked Elevation. Shaked Cadent.
9Double Relish.
11Or thus—
13which no explanation in words is attempted, but an example in notes given as above (Ex. 4).
15The agrémens used in modern music or in the performance of the works of the great masters are acciaccatura, appoggiatura, arpeggio, mordent, nachschlag, shake or trill, slide, and turn, each of which will be fully described in its own place. [See also the masterly treatise on 'Musical Ornamentation' by E. Dannreuther, in two volumes of Novello's Music Primers.] F. T.
17AGRICOLA, ALEXANDER, a composer of great celebrity living at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th. Crespel's lament on the death of OCKEGHEM mentions Agricola as a fellow-pupil in the school of that master; and the dates of his published works, together with an interesting epitaph printed in a collection of motets published at Wittenberg in 1538, furnish us with materials for briefly sketching his life. The words of the epitaph, which bears the title 'Epitaphium Alex. Agricolae Symphoniastae regis Castilae Philippi,' are as follows:—
19Musica quid desit? Perit mea cura decusque.
20Estne Alexander? Is meus Agricola.
21Dic age qualis erat? Clarus vocum manuumque.
22Quis locus hunc rapuit? Valdoletanus ager.
23Quis Belgiam huc traxit? Magnus rex ipse Philippus.
24Quo morbo interit? Febre furente obit.
25Etas quae fuerat? Jam sexagesimus annus.
26Sol ubi tunc stabat? Virginio in capite.
28The question 'Who brought the Belgian
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